Dale White

If it says it's designed for XP, odds are pretty good it's a new game and
will work.

You can post the games you are pondering about, Or do a search through this
forum for the game title. I agree with Dustin about going to the game makers
forums and see what they say, though if you go to FEARS forums, you're not
going to see a whole lot of activity on the subject.

My personal answer is, If you don't have the option to dual boot under both
Vista and XP, I would hold off on upgrading to vista for at least 2 more
months. Right now Nvidia and Creative are working on their drivers, so if
you have those products it could be a painful cutover.

If you're happy with your system right now, there isn't a good reason to
switch over to Vista yet. If you're planning on playing DX10 games like
Crysis, then I would wait until Crysis is release. If you have the drives or
logical partitions to dual boot, then I say go for, it's a great way to
learn and have a safety net





"niagara94" <niagara94@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:080D3816-6C0B-4B68-A8FB-CDE5C7ABA66A@microsoft.com...
> Hi - I am debating the whole Vista thing and I have a quick question. I
> have
> heard that if software (I'm wondering specifically about games right now)
> is
> designed to run on XP (if the specs of the game say XP) then it will run
> on
> Vista. Is that true? I realize that you may have to tweak a setting here
> or
> there or put it in compatibility mode. Also, what would you do if you
> contact the game manufacturers for info on this and they either don't know
> or
> don't reply (I haven't started this process yet but am just asking in
> advanced)? Thanks!